That said, I still don't like Dick Cheney.

Nothing he could have done in life would ever outweigh what he and Bush did in office and even before serving as VP, Cheney was eroding our democracy with his unitary executive promotion - it went back to Nixon with him. Chip, chip, chipping away.

Torturing people, extraordinary rendition, indefinite detentions - all things that eroded due process, which eroded our democracy.

Fuck, the Patriot Act for another example.

He'll never be anything other than a war criminal that was allowed to get away with his crimes to me.

Never.

Heartfelt thank you for saying what I've been thinking since he died.

He died from complications due to pneumonia, which was exacerbated by his heart problems. So, his lungs filled up with fluid - not so different from the way people feel being waterboarded...like they're drowning.

Still, he got off easy.

You're welcome. It's just how I feel.

…the only effort they are making to turn any corners is out of self-preservation.

If the optics of running as a Republican has become a toxic liability; fix that shit within your own party.

I’m not willing to accept a watered-down Democratic Party platform because some career NeoCon/MAGA Republican theocrat decided it would focus group better that a reformed Republican run as a Democrat.

Fuck that shit!

The proverbial big tent has no room for bipartisan kinship with war criminals and Gestapo sympathizers.

That includes any moments of lucidity from MT-fucking-Green as well…

I don't think you can say that about Liz Cheney. She gave up everything.

may camouflager them but does change them. Beware of said leopard.

Faulk was a popular radio talk show host in the 1950’s. The Reich-wing Birchers and more hated him and got him blacklisted. He took them to court for defamation. His attorney was the great Louis Nizer.*

Faulk had never seen or met the people who attacked him. Before the trial began he did.

He saw his protagonist in the hall and went over to introduce himself and shake his hand.

His attorneys were all: “What the hell did you do that for????”

Faulk: “I just wanted the son-of-a-bitch to know I had more manners than him.”

Schiff has manners, too.

* Faulk won in court. $3.5 million. It was the largest judgement for libel in history!

(All from my memory so the exact words may not 100%, but close enough.)

somewhat changing their Opinions, need to recall they were the active ones, every day of every year backing these assholes into power for the better part of ten years. And none of them have come over to them joining the Dem party at this point....

Dick Cheney electing himself as VP, along with his bestest buddy Rummy, escorted in a ton of shit, commiting incredible numbers of outright Felonies, as well as countless acts of Treason......